Love and romantic quotes
Related topics
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
The monster to Robert Walton
Frankenstein (1818)
Context: You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes. But in the detail which he gave you of them he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured wasting in impotent passions. For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
“Love is the strongest force in the world.”
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
“Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
“Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.”
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom